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Convicted rapist sentenced to 8 years in DOC

A Washington County judge has followed a jury’s recommendation and sentenced a local man to serve eight years in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for the rape of a 13-year-old girl.

Twenty-year-old Cassanova Cartier Tyran Hall was found guilty of first-degree rape of a person under the age of 14 on April 14 after the jury deliberated for about two hours.

On Thursday, District Judge Curtis DeLapp formally sentenced Hall to serve eight years in prison, to be followed by five years of post supervision.

The charges were the result of an incident that occurred on April 11, 2011, when the girl was 13.

Hall’s defense had contended during his trial that Hall had sexual relations with the girl but that it was consensual. The defense further contended that she had lied to Hall about her age through social networking messaging and texts.

But the prosecution presented a scenario in which Hall raped and threatened the girl to keep her silent.

During the trial, the victim, now 15, wept on the stand, saying, “No girl should have to go through that.” She said Hall told her, “If you tell anyone, I’m not only going to hurt you but hurt your family as well.”

When asked what Hall said to her following the incident, the girl testified, “He told me I better walk straight and not with a waddle.”

Authorities contend that Hall raped the girl when the two went to get cigarettes for her cousin. The girl reportedly told Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies that after they purchased the cigarettes, Hall drove to a gravel road on Madison Boulevard, north of Minnesota in northeast Bartlesville.

She said she asked him what he was doing and told him that “she needed to go back home,” reports show. She contended that Hall raped her and that she screamed but “there were no houses nearby and no one heard her screaming,” according to court documents.

Hall was also in the news recently after he was the apparent victim of an alleged jail assault by fellow inmate Brandon Capps, who is being held in connection with the beating death of his grandmother. Reportedly, Hall was not injured in the incident.